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The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting, 450 episodes. Page 4 of 5.

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151 - Concept of "What's the Score" to Know When and How to Attack!

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150 - Sparring to Win; How to Train Effectively with Smaller People So You BOTH Benefit!

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149 - Martial Artist and Clinical Neuropsychologist David Brown

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148 - Environmental Awareness and Dirty Fighting with Alex Kask

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147 - Why Your Game Needs to Change Every 10 Years

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146 - Dodging Polar Bears and Offshore Tides on Hudson Bay

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145 - What Really Happens When Traditional Martial Artists Spar for the First Time?

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144 - The Battle to Make Aikido Functional with Rokas Leonavicius

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143 - Can You Still Train If You're Dealing with Knee Injury?

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142, Self Defense and MMA Controversies with John Hacklemann

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141 - What Getting Smashed in Kiteboarding Taught Me About Learning BJJ

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140 - BJJ Specific Exercises, Supplements and Conditioning Routines with Ben Zhuang

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139 - BJJ is a Martial Art First and a Martial Sport Second!

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138 - National Football League Yoga Instructor Jessica Huneycutt

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137 - Riccardo Ammedolia, BJJ Analyst Extraordinaire

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136 - The Differences between 'Sport' and 'Self Defense' BJJ

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135 - How Muay Thai Fighters, Karateka and Boxers Make Themselves More Powerful

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134 - Conditioning for Combat Sports with Jason Kapnick

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133 - Can You Learn from Seminars?

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132 - Twelve BJJ Black Belts Give Their Best Advice for People Starting Jiu-Jitsu

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131 - Kirik Jenness of The Underground Forum

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130 - Pro-tip: How to Improve Your Chokes in Just 10 Seconds

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129 - Training with Dan Severn, Saving Jiu-Jitsu, and Training Around the World with Dan 'The Wolfman' Theodore

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128 - Can Kung Fu, BJJ and MMA Coexist? A conversation with mantis boxer Randy Brown.

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127 - Why Techniques Never Work on the Day They're Shown (and How to Fix That)

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126 - Killer Waves and Night Time Rescues with Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Donald Lipscomb

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125 - Reilly Bodycomb on Sambo, Leglocks and Competition

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124 - My Interview on the Cody Jitsu Podcast

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123 - What To Do When You're On the Bottom, Getting Crushed, and Unable to Breathe...

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122 - How to Blast Through Physical Setbacks When Your Training Gets Stalled

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121 - Police Combatives with Lt Kevin Dillon (ret) - Survival

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120 - Nick 'Chewy' Albin from Chewjitsu on BJJ, Wrestling, MMA and More

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119 - A Trick for Beating Exhaustion When You Roll or Compete

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118 - Tips for Minimising Injuries and Maximising Recovery

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117 - The Huge Difference Between Knowing a Technique and Being Able to Execute It Against Resistance

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116 - Should You Pull Guard in BJJ Competition or Not?

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115 - Stephan Talks With 8th Degree Black Belt Carlos Machado

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114 - Should You Stretch Before or After a Workout, a Controversial Topic!

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113 - A Close Call on the Mat, and 3 Takeaways for Avoiding Injuries!

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112 - A Live Q&A Session with Stephan Kesting

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111 - Kettlebell Conditioning with Jason C Brown

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110 - Training with World Champions, with Rob Biernacki

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109 - Keep It Simple Stupid! The KISS Principle in Self Defense...

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108 - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu vs Traditional Japanese Jujutsu with Alex Kask

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107 - Extreme Kiteboarder Jack Rieder

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106 - Top Five Martial Arts Nutrition Tips for the New Year

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105 - Matt Thornton on Conor McGregor, Skepticism and Aliveness in the Martial Arts

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104 - Why You Have To Grapple (And How To Get Good At It As Fast As Possible)

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103 - Forget New Year's Eve Resolutions; If It's The Right Thing to Do Then Do It Now!

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102 - Becoming a Firefighter with Battalion Chief Ken Johnson, 34 Year Fire Veteran

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101 - My Twitter Q&A: Talking Cryotherapy, Self Defense, Heel Hooks and More!

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100 - Optimal BJJ Training and Recovery with Sean McHugh

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099 - How to Motivate Yourself to Train

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098 - Why Do So Few BJJ Gyms Teach Takedowns?

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097 - A Q&A About Training BJJ for Older Grapplers

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096 - Lessons Learned from 19 Different World Champions, with Mike Zenga

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095 - Increasing Mobility for Jiu-Jitsu

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094 - Carnage and Survival in South Africa with Coach Rodney King

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093 - Testing Techniques and Avoiding Cults; The Critical Concept of Testability

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092 - How Violent Was Our History, Really? A Conversation with Daniele Bolelli

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091 - The Strange Connection Between Business, Entrepreneurship & Jiu-Jitsu with Jack Wilkinson

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090 - Finding the Most Effective Techniques with the 80/20 Principle

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089 - Clinton Davies, the Blind Wrestler and Grappler Who Takes on the World

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088 - Three time Judo Olympian and BJJ Black Belt Travis Stevens

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087 - The Brazilian jiu-jitsu Question and Answer Episode

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086 - BJJ World Champion Bernardo Faria on Surviving Adversity & Kidnapping

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085 - Tips and Tricks for Transitioning from Gi to No Gi with Ritchie Yip

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084 - Three Steps to Overcoming Training Plateaus

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083 - The World's Fastest Firefighter Jamie McGarva and His Training Routine

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082 - A BJJ School Where Visiting Students Can Train For Free?

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081 - Post Deathmarch Breakdown and Analysis with Eva Schubert

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080 - When In Your Training Should You Start Learning Leglocks?

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079 - What's the Best Steel for a Knife with Zoltan Schubert

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078 - Ueli Steck, the Best Mountaineer in the World, and Launch of The Strenuous Life Podcast

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077 - Should You Train When You're Really Tired?

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076 - Mayweather vs McGregor, Don't Waste Your Money!

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075 - How to Train When There's No School Close to You

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074 - Rob Biernacki and an 80/20 Analysis of the Leglock Game in Modern Competition

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EP 073 - What's Better for Self Defense: Striking or Grappling?

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072 "Roadhouse never happens," Bouncer Chad Skands on Managing Chaos at the Door

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071 - Stephan Answers BJJ and Training Questions

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070 - How to Pick a Good BJJ School

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069 - Three Techniques for Dealing with Fear in Competition or a Streetlight

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068 - Staying in Jiu-Jitsu Shape on the Road

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066 - How Do You Make a Technique Functional Against a Real Opponent

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065 - Is Martial Arts Training for Everyone with Sensei Ando Mierzwa

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064 - Rant: Your Instructor Does NOT Know Everything!

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063 - UFC Fighter on Alan Belcher on Cutting Weight, Facing the Scariest Fighters, and More

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062 - It's NOT About the Bloody Belt!

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061 - The Steps for Getting Back to Training After an Injury

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060 - Can You Learn Martial Arts with Only One Class Per Week?

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059 - What's The Most Efficient Cardio For When You Have No Time?

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058 - Pshemek Drabczynski on BJJ Sports Specific Strength and Conditioning

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057 - Rant: Great and Horrible Days on the Mat

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056 - Stephan Kesting vs Budo Jake; Training around the World, Advice to Newbies and More...

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055 - Stephan on the 'Spartan Underground' with James 300 Foster

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054 - Should You Still Train If You're Getting Sick?

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053 - Daniele Bolelli on Eye Gouging, MMA, and a Jujutsu President

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052 - Rant: Why the 'Too Deadly to Spar' Myth is Total B.S.

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051 - BJJ After 50 with the Black Belt Wrassling Rabbi Mordecai Finley